extract values found in array from string - php

Question

I am stuck. What I would like to do: In the $description string I would like to check if any of the values in the different arrays can be found. If any of the values match, I need to know which one per array. I am thinking that I need to do a function for each $a, $b and $c, but how, I don't know
if($rowGetDesc = mysqli_query($db_mysqli, "SELECT descFilter FROM tbl_all_prod WHERE lid = 'C2'")){
if (mysqli_num_rows($rowGetDesc) > 0){
while($esk= mysqli_fetch_array($rowGetDesc)){
$description = sanitizingData($esk['descFilter']);
$a = array('1:100','1:250','1:10','2');
$a = getExtractedValue($a,$description);
$b = array('one','five','12');
$b = getExtractedValue($b,$description);
$c = array('6000','8000','500');
$c = getExtractedValue($c,$description);
}
}
}
function getExtractedValue($a,$description){
?
}
I would be very very greatful if anyone could help me with this.
many thanks Linda

Answer 1

It would be better to create each array just once and not in every iteration of the while loop.
Also using the same variable names in the loop is not recommended.
if($rowGetDesc = mysqli_query($db_mysqli, "SELECT descFilter FROM tbl_all_prod WHERE lid = 'C2'")){
if (mysqli_num_rows($rowGetDesc) > 0){
$a = array('1:100','1:250','1:10','2');
$b = array('one','five','12');
$c = array('6000','8000','500');
while($esk= mysqli_fetch_array($rowGetDesc)){
$description = sanitizingData($esk['descFilter']);
$aMatch = getExtractedValue($a,$description);
$bMatch = getExtractedValue($b,$description);
$cMatch = getExtractedValue($c,$description);
}
}
}
Use strpos to find if the string exists (or stripos for case insensitive searches). See http://php.net/strpos. If the string exists it will return the matching value in the array:
function getExtractedValue($a,$description) {
foreach($a as $value) {
if (strpos($description, $value) !== false) {
return $value;
}
}
return false;
}

Answer 2

there s a php function for that which return a boolean.
or if you wanna check if one of the element in arrays is present in description, maybe you 'll need to iterate on them
foreach($array as element){
if(preg_match("#".$element."#", $description){
echo "found";
}
}

Answer 3

If your question is correctly phrased and indeed you are searching a string, you should try something like this:
function getExtractedValue($a, $description) {
$results = array();
foreach($a as $array_item) {
if (strpos($array_item, $description) !== FALSE) {
$results[] = $array_item;
}
}
return $results;
}
The function will return an array of the matched phrases from the string.

Answer 4

Try This..
if ( in_array ( $str , $array ) ) {
echo 'It exists'; } else {
echo 'Does not exist'; }